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I just love my dear friend’s tree, don’t you?!

#MerryChristmas to all who celebrate! #books

A Christmas tree made of books with lights.
#books #merrychristmas

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possum
GO POSITIVE POSSUM!

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thinkin about this Moon Cat

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I would like to wish everyone on Mastodon and the greater fediverse a happy Christmas for you and your loved ones!
A furry mastodon in a snowy forest wearing a beautiful ornate Santa hat

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Celebrate this Christmas Eve with a touch of nostalgia 🎄 🎶 Listen to the preserved & digitized 78rpm recording "CHRISTMAS EVE AT GRANDMA'S" (1923) archive.org/details/78_christm…
Photo of the original 78rpm record for CHRISTMAS EVE AT GRANDMA'S by Cameo Record Corporation.

CHRISTMAS EVE AT GRANDMA'S : HOLY TRINITY MALE QUARTETTE : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Performer: HOLY TRINITY MALE QUARTETTEFor The Kiddies; (Descriptive Novelty); Orchestra Accompaniment.Digitized at 78 revolutions per minute. Four stylii were...
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love when an interlibrary loan request comes through for a paper from long ago (this case a 1900 chemistry paper).

Lets keep the shoulders of giants strong and available for current scholars to stand on.

#ILL @internetarchive

"Asymmetric optically active sulfur compounds. d-methylethylthietine platinichloride"

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Happy holidays!

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Journal of the Chemical Society. Transactions 1900: Vol 77 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Journal of the Chemical Society. Transactions 1900: Volume 77.Digitized from IA1641909-05.Previous issue:...
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#ILL @internetarchive

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Table by E O Wilson that shows how as worker ants age they take on different jobs around their nest— first working with eggs and the queen then with other ants then last they forage.
Table showing how as a worker ant ages between 0 and 18 months she will take on different jobs around her nest that involve increasing contact with the outside world. .

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#BelieveInFilm friends, wishing you a magical Christmas filled with joy, laughter, and the warmth of family and friends. May this festive season bring you peace, love, and endless happiness. Merry Christmas!

🎞️ Kodak TMAX P3200 (EI 1600)

#35mm
#FilmPhotography
#BlackAndWhite

black-and-white film photo. A Christmas candle is burning in the foreground. In the background you can see the lights from the garland on the Christmas tree. Lights are very blurred, so they look like large light bubbles
#blackandwhite #35mm #filmphotography #believeinfilm

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You’ve heard of elf on a shelf, now get ready for…
Dr Who top of an Egyptian tablet, with a Christmas tree and Father Christmas flying over the pyramids with lightning bolts. If you came here for answers, I’m not telling you what it is hehe.

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Gift comic I painted for a little girl I know, starring the family cat. This is gouache on 140lb fabriano
painted one page comic starring Buster, a cat who tries to get a christmas tree but ends up angering a dragon. Luckily the dragon is placated by ONE HUNDRED DONUTS.

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My cats do this...

dog on floor
@Carsten Raddatz @Christoph S @Cass M 👋🏽🍁

@Carsten Raddatz @Christoph S @Cass M 👋🏽

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artificial xmas trees

Gads! I remember the toilet brush Christmas trees!

Toilet Brushes Are Partly to Thank for Artificial Christmas Trees

Toilet Brushes Are Partly to Thank for Artificial Christmas Trees

And other strange evergreen decor evolutions, from retro-kitsch to glow-in-the-dark.
Kathy Adams (Atlas Obscura)
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Muse
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@Bob Lai Do you remember the Christmas trees made by rollling up newspapers, cutting lengthwise down the tube, pulling up from the centre of the tube, then spray-painting those results with green?
@Bob Lai

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The Joys Of Nvidia On Linux #Linux #YouTube youtu.be/b6-04t5RUjM

The Joys Of Nvidia On Linux

Whilst we often talk about Nvidia being a problem on Linux in the context of Wayland this is not a Wayland exclusive issue and for some users the problems ar...
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#linux #YouTube
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Tarcísio Surdi
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been experiencing that black line issue on GNOME Wayland since upgrading from 535 to 545 drivers with my 2060. Thank you for bringing attention to this as it’s driving me mad - I believe it to be related to the lack of explicit sync support in Wayland or something like that…

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Effective immediately, CARTOONISTS RIGHTS will cease posting content to Twitter, now known as “X”, until such time as there is a change in ownership and a marked improvement in the website’s policies and functionality. Read the full statement on our website.
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A statement on social media policy - CARTOONISTS RIGHTS

Effective immediately CARTOONISTS RIGHTS will cease using the Twitter/X, citing mismanagement, disfunction, and increased hatred on the social media platform.
Terry Anderson (CARTOONISTS RIGHTS)

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I finally listened to the Dear Alana podcast, on a queer woman who died by suicide after being guided in the CU Boulder campus Catholic parish. I am so moved and heartbroken.

This Christmas, as part of the Boulder Catholic community, I will pray for the conversion of our church toward a fuller embrace of people as they are.

Listen here: dearalana.com/


Dear Alana, Official Website

A new podcast from Tenderfoot TV. Hosted by Simon Kent Fung.
dearalana.com

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Why #AI is a disaster for the #climate - theguardian.com/commentisfree/… "Amid all the hysteria about ChatGPT and co, one thing is being missed: how energy-intensive the technology is" - yes, this is the real threat to humanity, not AI taking over...

Why AI is a disaster for the climate

John Naughton (The Guardian)
#AI #Climate

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The alpine marmot (Marmota marmota) is a large ground-dwelling squirrel, from the genus of marmots. It is found in high numbers in mountainous areas of central and southern Europe, at heights between 800 and 3,200 m (2,600–10,500 ft) in the Alps, Carpathians, Tatras and Northern Apennines. In 1948 they were reintroduced with success in the Pyrenees, where the alpine marmot had disappeared at end of the Pleistocene epoch. (Text Source: Wikipedia)
#Photography #environment #animals #Europe #wildlife #wild #wildlifephotography #conservation #biodiversity #Marmot #mammal #wildlifeplanet #wildlifeonearth #natgeowild #wildlifephoto #wildlifelovers #Placentals #spohrphotography

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I am happy to accept Weird Al as this generation's Mozart.
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Tom Grzybow
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Myself, I feel that Brian Eno is the Mozart for today...

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It's Christmas Eve here in Australia!
Cheerio!

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@Christoph S I noticed someone else has found this meme and put it up in Diaspora (wavies!). I'm including you because this seems in line with your recent CheckIn post.
@Christoph S
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Clarice Boomshakala Bouvier
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and thankyou (yugest smiles with much love to you and yours) "avagoodone mate" or "get it in ya" works too
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Bob Lai
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Had a co-worker whose last name was Maciejewska, everyone just called her 'Mac.'

But almost everyone mispronounced her first name as well, 'Lara' - most people called her 'Laura.'

She asked me why I didn't have a problem with it, and I said, "It's easy. Same name as Superman's Mom." She got a laugh out of that.

An acceptable answer to 'Merry Christmas!' OR 'Happy Holidays!' is always, 'Thank you! The same to you!'

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The Dumbest Firefox Bug Ever Discovered #Linux #YouTube youtu.be/1lR4k6QWPMg

The Dumbest Firefox Bug Ever Discovered

Firefox is an incredible browser, but like any browser it has to contend with terribly designed websites which do things in ways that don't seem to make any ...
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#linux #YouTube
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David :gnome: :silverblue:
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🤓 well actually... It's a YouTube bug. Though technically it's misbehaving was logged in the Firefox bug tracker.</pedantic nerd mode>
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Brodie Robertson
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@dperson 🤓 well actually it's still a Firefox bug because Linux is the only platform where Firefox doesn't fake it's architecture on ARM
@David :gnome: :silverblue:

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Latest cartoon: Holiday harangue

#cartoon #comic #holidays #abortion #prochoice

Holiday Harangue 1. Two women walking on sidewalk past windows with holiday decorations Woman 1: If you had told me while I was growing up that in 2024 you couldn't end a doomed pregnancy that endangers your own life, I wouldn't have believed it. 2. Woman 1: Having your family face lawsuits just for accompanying you to another state... it's like we're living in some weird repressive backwater. 3. Woman 1: And the idea that this is a "culture war" -- nice euphemism! When people are forced to risk their lives and livelihoods, it's an actual war. 4. Woman 2: Merry Christmas to you, too! Woman 1: I was going to get you an alternative timeline for America, but they were all out.
#Comic #cartoon #abortion #prochoice #holidays

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Massive study analyzes 23 million headlines from 47 news media outlets in the US from 2000-2019. They find that over this time period, headlines became more likely to denote anger, fear, disgust and sadness and less likely to be emotionally neutral. Headlines from right-leaning news media were consistently more negative than headlines from left-leaning outlets as well.
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Longitudinal analysis of sentiment and emotion in news media headlines using automated labelling with Transformer language models

This work describes a chronological (2000–2019) analysis of sentiment and emotion in 23 million headlines from 47 news media outlets popular in the United States.
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oh hey my games are on deep discount on itch.io, and we still need all the financial help we can get in order to stay housed and fed until we can get kitsune tails out next year so buying them would be a huge help: eniko.itch.io/

they're also on sale on steam: store.steampowered.com/bundle/…

Eniko

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Good morning
It's #Caturday
Cat has fallen asleep on a model train yard. A flipped over train is now a pillow
#Caturday

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#Refugees #AsylumSeekers #TogetherWithRefugees
Poster saying: "Rejoice in the birth of a brown-skinned undocumented immigrant"
#refugees #asylumseekers #togetherwithrefugees

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What are you up to ?

#Caturday #CatsOfMastodon

Jamie
#CatsOfMastodon #Caturday

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Good morning and happy #Caturday from #Helsinki #Finland!

Miss Chicken von Waffles is currently sleeping under the #Christmas tree.

Best present ever!

#cats #catsofmastodon #catstodon #catsoffediverse #catsofthefediverse #xmas

A grey tabby cat is sleeping under a lit Christmas tree, on a red cloth tree mat, surrounded by some early presents.
#cats #CatsOfMastodon #Caturday #Christmas #Xmas #catstodon #finland #helsinki #catsoffediverse #catsofthefediverse

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The #Nicobar #Pigeon is the largest and most colourful pigeon in the world. They are near threatened in #India by #palmoil #deforestation, #poaching and the #pet trade. Help them each time you shop and #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife palmoildetectives.com/2023/12/… via @palmoildetectives

Nicobar pigeon Caloenas nicobarica

The Nicobar pigeon is the largest pigeon in the world and the closest living relative to the extinct dodo bird. They are famous for their gorgeous iridescent feathers. When threatened they make a p…
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#India #palmoil #deforestation #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife #poaching #pigeon #nicobar #pet @Palm Oil Detectives

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I think a simple change in nomenclature could help Mastodon incredibly. Servers is an inaccurate term and instance is unfamiliar and vague. Both create tension for new users.
Why not simply call Mastodon instances what they are: Communities.
Ask users which Mastodon community they'd like to join. Have community rules, community policy, and community leaders. Not server rules, instance moderators and administrators.

Let me start. Everyone is welcome at our community, thecanadian.social


TheCanadian.Social

Politics,sports,current events and laughs from Canada and across the fediverse.
Mastodon hosted on thecanadian.social
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Eugen Rochko
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We tried this years back, it doesn't work. Servers are not (always) communities. This nomenclature carries with it a lot of associations that are not true or helpful to Mastodon, e.g. that these "communities" are siloed and you need to create separate accounts to join each community, and that you need to condense your identity into one specific hobby to participate in Mastodon. Service provider is a potential candidate for a better term than "server".
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@Gargron I think I can see some merit to this in regards to thecanadian.social, mstdn.ca, and other regional instances. I've used the "community" word a few times over the last while and it feels like it's made sense for us... with the extension into the fediverse.
@Eugen Rochko
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@Gargron

@mike

I agree, the server I am on does not feel like a community to me. I like being on the server. I have no complaints about the administration or moderation. But I am not on this server for its community,

I am here to interact with the fediverse.

@Eugen Rochko @Mike Fraser
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Mike Fraser
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If your instance is simply a provider, then what value does it bring over mastodon.social? Lower latency? Perhaps a longer character limit? Really?
Usually the value is in both the moderation style and the interaction of users with each other and the admins, to form, you guessed it... a community.
I'd like to think people that run instances aren't simply volunteer load balancers.
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#SocialMedia provider or #socialmedia instance.

#Mastodon and #threads, and #bsky and others are brands. And brands carry baggage.

Just like we host #email. We also host #social

Very few care what is under the hood of our email servers. And it should be the same for social.

#mastodon #Socialmedia #email #Social #threads #bsky
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Dieu
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@Gargron I agree that community certainly won't always be the best fit in each single case, huge instances like mastodon.social certainly, won't have much community feeling left (no offence). But it might still be a better fit in most cases. Regarding the experiences in the past, I assume they predate mass adoption, and mass adoption may well have stacked the cards quite differently. Have you considered this?
@Eugen Rochko

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I've been thinking that Phanpy's icon was a pig snout for so long. I just realized it's the tip of an elephant's trunk.
Phanpy icon

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Grinch snack tray
I see something like this, and at first I go: WOW!
Then I go, some people have WAY too much time on their hands... hehehe!

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NVK and Nouveau today are Proton 5 years ago, when Proton was announced it was insanely impressive but so limited compared to now, with 5 more years of development we may no longer even think about drivers when you buy a GPU

Proton Announcement: steamcommunity.com/games/22141…


Steam :: Steam for Linux :: Introducing a new version of Steam Play

In 2010, we announced Steam Play: a way for Steam users to access Windows, Mac and Linux versions of Steam games with a single purchase.
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OpenComputeDesign
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Honestly, while being able to run non native games in Linux is nice, proton has honestly made me think _way_ more about GPUs and drivers. Before Proton and DXVK, I never needed Vulkan, but needing Vulkan by far and a way limits what GPUs and drivers I can use.

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If this can be a salad, you can be anything.
Prune and Cream Cheese Donut Salad 1/4 pound cream cheese 4 prunes 4 doughnuts 4 lettuce leaves Quarter donut. Spread cut ends with cream cheese and put donut back together. Place on lettuce leaf. On each side of donut place a prune that has been stuffed with cream cheese. Serves four.

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Looks like our buddy Roy was not too happy getting called out techrights.org/n/2023/12/22/Te…

Techrights Does Not Do a Response to a Response

Tit-for-tat pingpong is a waste of time
Roy Schestowitz
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spikederailed
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he presents nothing to his side them claim you don't either. fuck me what a classy act he must be.

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Today we have my buddy Livakivi back on the show, this was supposed to be about his journey back on Linux and then we spent 50 minutes talking about Japanese study but it's fun none the less. #Japanese #Linux #OpenSource

Video: youtube.com/watch?v=1pEtSK3LBh…

Audio: podcasters.spotify.com/pod/sho…


#199 Originally This Was A Linux Podcast | Livakivi

Livakivi is back on the show again, originally we planned to talk about his recent endeavours playing around with Linux again but that didn't happen at the s...
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#opensource #linux #japanese

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space house
This gingerbread house is for YOU @Bob Lai! @Christoph S You might like this as well!
@Christoph S @Bob Lai

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hot tub holidays
Someone's kid made this card. BRILLIANT!

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People insist that Santa is white. Some say, he is Black. Isn’t this all just wrong? I once saw Santa in the internment camps, and he was most definitely Asian.
Screenshot of a tweet from Alex Cole that has a photo of a Black Santa and says: Every time you share this Black Santa, another January 6th MAGA racist gets arrested!

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